The Bandaged Hearts

In July 2011 I joined Jude Hill’s Magic Diaries. This inspired me to make a bandaged heart each day as even the strongest hearts have a few little nicks & tears in need of repair. I posted them here each day making an electric tapestry of 144 hearts to honour all the people who have touched our lives, then then knotted & wove them all together into The Stole of Bandaged Hearts for Old Man Crow to wear at gigs.

These hearts are making themselves each morning to start the day and re what the scarf looks like at the end of the year… I’m quite curious too but “the fun is in the process the outcome is (often) just debris” ( to misquote a glass artist comrade from many years ago)… it could end up being a gross of hearts!

Ta Victoria, it’s such a gentle start to the day thinking of all the hearts in the world… seeing Jude’s heart with a pin through it on her cloth whispering page was the catalyst … these are truly the magic days

the first two hearts were given to friends last weekend, the one in the tin was a birthday present, the one with the tiny rose bud was made to help ease a toothache. So the scarf only started on Monday in preparation for the Magic Diaries journey, look forward to seeing what happens next!

These bandaged hearts are reflecting the state of my heart… this morning I was feeling so out of sorts with the world that the edge of the heart I was making knotted up into a tangled mess. Cutting all those knots out helped undo the heartfelt knots inside too.

The Brave Heart Crow visited one afternoon in 2004 standing on the fence aaarking aarking aaarking at me for about 15 minutes so loud & close I could have touched him! That was the beginning of my fascination with the corvidae.